Excursions - Biel / Bienne (Schweizer Mittelland)

The Aare is the longest river lying entirely within Switzerland. Between Biel and Solothurn, it offers perfect conditions for canoeists.

The CentrePasquArt, was opened in the old municipal hospital in 1990. The oldest part of the building was erected in 1866 as Biel's first hospital. The renovated Centre PasquArt, enlarged by a new building, is open to the public. Designed by Diener & Diener, the Basel team of architects, the ensemble dazzles by its perfect and harmonious union of old and new.

At the Neuhaus Museum in Biel/Bienne you can learn about industrial history where it actually took place. At this former textile printing works, in addition to temporary exhibitions, there are permanent exhibitions of the fauna and flora watercolours from the Robert Collection, the cinema collection of William Piasio, works by the painter and writer Karl and Robert Walser and an exhibition on "Bourgeois Life in the 19th century".

Something to do on rainy Sundays. At the Schwab Museum in Biel/Bienne, you are invited to take a journey from the early Stone Age through to Roman times, with archaeological finds from the Three Lakes Region. The changing exhibitions on archaeological and prehistoric topics are particularly worth a visit.

No one is too young to go to sea! On this boat trip on Lake Bienne, children can get a taste of what it means to be at the helm. Those who sign up in advance not only get to visit the captain on the bridge, but can also have a go at steering the boat on their own – at the helm and with the captain’s cap on their head! So if that’s not enough to fire a young sea pup’s imagination, what is?